With the promotion of ecological architecture, the rammed earth technology is widely used. In order to study strength characteristics and durability of stabilized rammed earth, bentonite, kaolin and natural soil which contain different clay minerals are utilized to produce various types of rammed earth specimens based on improved ramming methods. The unconfined compressive strength tests and ab-sorption tests are carried out in 4 different times of curing (3, 7, 28 and 56 days). In addition, 11 kinds of stabilized blending ratios are made by varying the amounts of cement and lime. The results indicate that the longer curing time is, the stronger unconfined compres-sive strength (UCS) of bentonite specimens will be. With the increase of the curing time, the UCS of the kaolinite specimens increase at first and then decrease slightly. However, in terms of natural soil specimens, the UCS increases at first and then decrease only when they contain the same amount of cement and lime, whereas to other blending ratios the UCS increases gradually. Furthermore, cement exhibit superior durability and resistance to weathering characteristics when compared to lime. On average, the strength and durability of natural soil-containing specimens was not as superior as that of kaolinite-containing specimens, but was significantly higher than that of bentonite-containing specimens. On the other hand, it was found that the strength growth model of UCS fitted by experimental re-sults could describe reasonably the development of stabilized rammed earth.